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Charles Busch (born August 23 , 1954 ) is an American actor and writer who has appeared in many Off-Broadway productions. Busch first came to prominence as both author and performer (as the leading lady, in '' for an 1989 production staged by the Goodspeed Opera House . Busch's success in his own works led to his performance in a 1993 revival of Genet 's '' The Maids ''. In 1994, he took the male lead in his comedy '' You Should Be So Lucky ''. Other works of the 1990s include his autobiographical one-man show ''Flipping My Wig'' (1996) and a serious valentine to melodrama ''Queen Amarantha'' (1997). His 1999 play '' Die, Mommie, Die! '' was performed in Los Angeles and was made into the 2003 feature film of the same name. Busch's film appearances include '''' (with Lauren Ambrose playing the Gidget role Busch originated onstage and Busch playing the new part of the policewoman trying to solve the mystery) and '' Die, Mommie, Die! '', for which he won a Sundance Special Performance Award. In 2000, Busch's work debuted on Broadway , when '' The Tale Of The Allergist's Wife '' opened following an earlier off-Broadway. The play, his first in which he did not star and the first created for a mainstream audience, was written as a vehicle for actress Linda Lavin , who played opposite Michele Lee and Tony Roberts . ''Allergist's Wife'' received a 2001 Tony Award nomination for Best Play and ran for 777 performances. Late in the run, Valerie Harper and Richard Kind took over the lead roles. His only other Broadway work to date has been as the rewritten book for Boy George 's autobiographical musical '' Taboo '', which lasted 100 performances. Since 2000, Busch has performed an annual one-night-only staged reading of his 1984 Christmas play ''Times Square Angel''. In 2003, he headlined a revival of his 1999 play ''Shanghai Moon'' (costarring B. D. Wong ). He has taken the eponymous lead in three productions of '' Auntie Mame '', two of them all-star staged readings (fall 1998 and 2003) and one a scaled-down summer touring production (2004). ''Our Leading Lady,'' Busch's play about Laura Keene , the nineteenth-century actress who starred in the production of '' Our American Cousin '' that Abraham Lincoln attended the night he was assassinated in Ford's Theatre , is scheduled to premiere in New York during the 2006-2007 season of the Manhattan Theater Club. On TV, Busch has played the characters of Peg Barlow on '' One Life To Live '' and, in his best-known role to mainstream audiences, crossdressing inmate Nat Ginzburg in the third and fourth seasons of '' Oz ''. Busch is the author of the 1995 novel ''Whores of Lost Atlantis'', a fictionalized re-telling of the creation of ''Vampire Lesbians of Sodom''. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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